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Road Safety Week – Think! Keep that mobile away while driving!!

The most important road safety tip you’ll probably hear in your life? It’s to put your mobile away. Using a mobile phone or any kind of such deviation while driving is incredibly dangerous and yet a many of Indians admit to doing it. Here’s why this is the biggest problem facing our roads today. One must educate drivers and riders about how to be safe on the road and make it a safer place. This can be achieved with the help of road safety banners and road safety posters and road safety signs & signages.

It causes accidents

Simply put, using your mobile phone while driving can cause an accident. In fact, there’s a pretty high chance that it will, especially if you do it regularly. In India every hour 17 people die due to road accidents. In spite of these Drivers/ Riders are unable to quit risky habit of using mobile phone. Those numbers show, without any doubt, that phones do cause accidents. If you still think it won’t happen to you, perhaps because you’re better at multi-tasking than other people, you need to read on.

It’s hard to focus

Even if you think you’re great at focusing – and even if you’re using a hands-free system – you might not be as good at managing your attention as you think. Tests have shown that using a complex voice-activated system, like Siri, can derail your attention for as much as 22 seconds after you stop using it. That’s right – it doesn’t just distract you while you use it, but the effects continue afterwards as well. You have to wrench your brain back to the here and now.

As for texting while driving, looking down at your phone for just two seconds while travelling at 60kmph will leave you blind for 33 metres. Once you look up, you’ll be thinking about what you read on the screen – not what’s on the road.

The consequences are dire

When you text, call, or use your phone in any way while driving, the consequences could be incredibly dire. The Research tell us that:

More than 1.4 lakh people died in road crashes in India in 2018.

Around 26% of people injured in road accidents will receive life-threatening injuries

The highest rate of injury or death in road crashes is for 15 to 24-year-olds

Injuries sustained in car accidents can be lifelong, such as loss of limbs, brain damage, partial or full paralysis, or loss of organ function requiring lifelong treatment

The crux of the matter is that if you repeatedly use your mobile phone while driving, you’re likely to eventually get into a crash that kills either you or someone else. If you do it even once, you’re running that same risk.

We must implement road safety banners on roads to create road safety awareness amongst drivers and riders to stay safe and avoid mishaps on the road.